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...Willwerth, who served 14 months as a correspondent in Viet Nam, covering the Salvadoran insurgency has revived old and unwanted memories. "The countryside is strikingly similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third...
...went to Viet Nam as a 21-year-old Army nurse with stars in my eyes and trust in my heart. By the time I came back, the stars in my eyes had turned to tears and the trust had been replaced by heartbreak, anger, resentment and confusion. I also carried with me an overwhelming love and respect for the young men who, like me, carried on the best they could in the most miserable physical and psychological situations. If there is one monument [Feb. 22] to one soldier on the face of this, earth, there must...
...collective amnesia has seized the participants in that tragedy. Liberals have been reluctant to assume any responsibility for the consequences of their two great causes of the 1970s. Some of the "neoconservatives" who had moved from the liberal to the conservative side after Viet Nam had few incentives to recall their own contributions to the collapse of international restraints. They forgot that they had assaulted as too bellicose the same foreign policy that five years later they denounced as retreat...
After the Viet Nam cease-fire-and the first SALT agreement-we managed to increase the defense budget by some 5%. But even this relatively modest change ran up against the lingering inhibitions of Viet Nam, compounded by Watergate. Every new weapons system had to run a gauntlet of objections: it was unnecessary because we already had an "overkill" capability; it was dangerous because it would compel offsetting Soviet moves; it would jeopardize SALT negotiations; it would weaken us because it might preclude newer and even better weapons down the road. The attainable was being blocked by a quest...
Wham-O believes that the current economic troubles may be just what is needed to give the Hula Hoop another whirl. The first introduction coincided with the 1958 recession, while the second came during the trauma of the Viet Nam War. As Shapiro explains, "Wham-O has always felt that when the world is in kind of a messy way and people are unhappy, something like the hoop lets them just forget everything while they go crazy for a minute or two spinning around...